So, chat, is it worth the 5 bucks? I Like the demo but I never found the end screen that SAYS it's a demo, so it just feels incomplete. Instead, there's a bunch of invisible walls everywhere.
Is the version that costs money a complete story? How MUCH more content is there? Is it worth it? Cause I can't refund it if it ain't, and I've yet to see a proper review
So I bought it and I have thoughts
Let me just say first of all: the game is worth the price. There's more than three times as much content in the full game, and all of it is great.
There's also a bunch of extra characters that aren't in any of the other games that you can expand at some point, which is cool.
That being said, I have thoughts. And there ARE things one should know before buying it.
If you like the demo, or other soulstream expansive games, this is the most comprehensive game made by them. It's also the least glitchy and has the only story in any of the games that has a natural stopping point.
However, it's save files are comically rudimentary. There are only two save points in the game, no tutorial on how to use them (interact with em by pressing "E") and when I played, there was no notification that the game was saved. Also, there is only one save file and no save menu. This is my largest complaint with the game.
As such, I would recommend purposefully losing every encounter and making every incorrect dialogue choice purposefully, to make sure you experience every scenario in a single playthrough.
They also have like 2 tutorials explaining which buttons to use to throw a punch and to shoot an expansion laser. Otherwise, they don't explain much of anything at all. Expect to run around aimlessly and fiddle with buttons to figure out what to do. It's not too arduous but it happens a good few times.
LET ME SAY IT AGAIN. THIS GAME IS %100 WORTH THE PRICE. I AM TELLING YOU THE BAD PARTS SO YOU KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT, NOT BECAUSE IT'S A BAD GAME. IT IS A VERY VERY GOOD GAME.
[FROM THIS POINT FORWARD I WILL BE SAYING A BUNCH OF SPOILERS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. BUT ALSO LIKE THIS IS MEANT TO BE A REVIEW SO IF YOU'RE COOL WITH SPOILERS THEN THIS WILL HELP YOU DECIDE WHETHER TO BUY IT]
The slimes can be expanded once you have the expansion gun. It doesn't help you in a fight at all but, It works. Slimegirls exist.
Eventually, you'll enter a mall and encounter your MC's childhood best friend. This will cause an unskippable cutscene that either starts a mini game or causes a game over depending on whether you decide to hide or run respectively. Choose to run and get the game over. Trust me.
In the mall, you can find the childhood best friend before your scripted encounter by going down to the bottom of the screen and going right. Hit her with the expansion ray before you're supposed to talk to her and you'll be treated to an expansion sequence that's longer and larger than any other in the game.
Ok so the ending is a bad ending. The bad guy wins. Everyone survives but the world is changed forever, and it hits you with a "to be continued". It's the most finished story in the lineup of Soulstream Expansive games but it's still not technically "done"
Also, when you finish the game, you unlock a "memories" mode, which allows you to play the game from different points in the story- mostly parts that let you expand women. This would let you experience variants of scenes that you weren't able to the first time. However, it's all behind a mild static-y filter, which obviously changes the experience, and I can't figure out how to turn it off.
Also they give you a secret code that lets you play as a female version of the main character after beating the game. Which is neat but loses it's novelty after 30 seconds of walking since the player character is made of single-sprite body pieces that you can see all of just by moving around a bit.
